Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: katanaso on October 15, 2010, 10:17:55 AM
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I had a power spike yesterday morning, and my PC rebooted, which tells me my UPS is dead...anyways.
When I went to play AH last night, my frame rates were consistently 10-20 FPS lower than normal, which is usually the monitor's refresh rate of 76. The night before this happened, everything was running smooth and consistent.
I noticed some Windows Updates installed security patches yesterday, so I removed all of those, defragged, and made sure there weren't any active processes taking up HDD I/O or CPU cycles more so than any other night, but yet performance lagged and I consistently had low FPS when flying.
I tried offline and online -- same result of lower FPS and stuttering gameplay as soon as I went into a plane.
I reinstalled the vid drivers over themselves, so the next step, I think, is doing a driver sweep and reinstalling them fresh.
However, is it possible that the spike damaged my PSU or GPU, and it's only showing up when I launch the game? I've never had a partially damaged piece of hardware -- it's usually working or broken.
Is it possible to test this?
Vid Card is an Asus 5850. PSU is a Corsair 750TX.
I started running 3dMark06 this morning, but I had to leave for work, so I'll see results when I get home to compare to past benchmarks.
The only other thing I can think of is some type of corruption in the OS, and I can reinstall Windows.
Any thoughts or advice on troubleshooting the PSU would be greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks,
mir
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I'm almost useless to help you but did you install any software when you got your UPS?
I remember years ago I had one that died and I removed it from the system. The problem was the monitoring software that came with it continued to try and find the UPS and it made my system act up.
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I did Del, so I'll look at that. Thanks for thinking of that.